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PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction ぺん/ふぉーくなーしょう(ふぃくしょんぶもん)

Edition 10 (1990)

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E. L. Doctorow いーえる どくとろう Winner

A coming-of-age novel about Billy, a boy immersed in the gangster world of the 1930s. Through the criminal underworld around real-life gangsters, it depicts loyalty, betrayal, power, and a vivid historical milieu.

A boy grows up inside the gangster world.

gangsters and crimecoming of agehistorical fictionthe city’s darker side